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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S., British and French forces hammered Syria with air strikes early Saturday Syria time in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in the biggest intervention by Western powers in Syria’s civil war.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced the military action from the White House late on Friday. As he spoke, explosions rocked Damascus. Continue reading “Trump orders strikes against Syria over chemical weapons attack”
The 911 recordings are gut-wrenching.
“I probably don’t have much time left. Tell my mom I love her, if I die,” the caller, a 16-year-old teen, tells police dispatchers.
The boy was inside a gold 2002 Honda Odyssey van in the parking lot of his school, pinned under the third-row folding seat. Continue reading “Trapped and dying in a minivan, desperate Ohio teen calls 911 for help that doesn’t find him”
President Donald Trump is poised to pardon Scooter J. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, according to sources familiar with the president’s thinking.
The president has already signed off on the pardon, which is something he has been considering for several months, sources told ABC News. Continue reading “President Trump poised to pardon Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, sources say”
A Cape Cod police officer was fatally shot Thursday afternoon while serving a warrant in the village of Marstons Mills in Barnstable.
Yarmouth Police Officer Sean Gannon, 32, and his K-9, Nero, were part of a team of officers serving a warrant on a number of firearms violations at a home on Blueberry Lane when the suspect shot the officer in the head, fatally wounding him. Continue reading “Yarmouth officer fatally shot while serving warrant for firearms violations”
Washington Examiner – by Gabby Morrongiello
President Trump has directed his top economic and trade advisers to look into the potential benefits of re-entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multilateral trade agreement that he withdrew the U.S. from in one of his first acts as president
Trump told a group of Republican senators during a meeting Thursday that he had assigned National Economic Council Chairman Larry Kudlow and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer “the task of taking another look at TPP,” Sen. Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, told reporters following the meeting. Continue reading “Trump directs top economic advisers to look at re-entering TPP”
The New York Times, in a recent article about the prospect that H-4 aliens will not be allowed to continue to work, wrote sympathetically about the plight of a two-guestworker family that may become a one-guestworker family under the proposal: “She began fretting about how they would afford their $4,800 monthly mortgage.”
The situation is that the family, including an H-1B alien worker and his H-4 alien worker wife, both currently working in the U.S. economy, were worried that the latter would lose her job should the administration roll back an Obama-era scheme in which some of the H-4 dependents of H-1B workers are allowed work permits. Continue reading “New York Times Urges Sympathy for Plight of H-1B Workers in Million-Dollar Homes”
Bank of America plans to stop lending to manufacturers of “military-style firearms” used by civilians, an executive told Bloomberg.
“We want to continue in any way we can to reduce these mass shootings,” Anne Finucane, vice chairman of Bank of America (BAC), said in an interview. “It is our intention not to finance these military-style firearms for civilian use.” Continue reading “Bank of America to stop lending to makers of ‘military-style firearms’”
Courthouse News – by Nathan Solis
LOS ANGELES (CN) – The challenge of a California law requiring gun manufacturers to implement technology that may not yet exist landed at the California Supreme Court on Wednesday, raising questions about potentially impossible rules and standards.
Since 2013, California’s Unsafe Handgun Act requires two identifying microstamps be placed on a cartridge when a bullet is fired. Continue reading “Gun Makers Fight ‘Impossible’ California Requirement”
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Supreme Court says a man who had a loaded handgun in his glove compartment violated Wisconsin’s concealed carry law.
Police in Milwaukee stopped Brian Grandberry in 2014 and found a loaded semi-automatic pistol in the glove compartment. Grandberry didn’t have a concealed weapon permit and prosecutors charged him with violating the state’s concealed carry law. Continue reading “Court: Gun in glove compartment violated concealed carry law”
A man who was released from a Mississippi mental hospital, where he was sent briefly for acting erratically and after cops found several weapons in his vehicle, is now behind bars — because he asked for the guns back.
Steven Drew Montana argued that doctors had cleared him of any mental issues, so Pascagoula police, backed by a court order, handed over his seized firearms, an AK-47 and Glock pistol. Continue reading “Man whose firearms were returned by police after mental hospital stay now facing gun possession charges”
President Donald Trump’s latest order, in which he demands an end to “Catch and Release,” comes less than a month after he signed the omnibus spending bill which expanded the program, allowing for more illegal aliens caught at the border to be released into the United States.
Catch and Release is the process where illegal aliens caught by federal immigration officials are released back into the U.S. until their immigration court hearing. Part of the reason for their release into the country is because the federal government refuses to fund the space needed to detain illegal aliens until their hearing. Continue reading “Trump Orders End to ‘Catch and Release’ of Illegal Aliens After Expanding Program Last Month”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents on Monday raided the office of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, seizing records on topics including a $130,000 payment made to a porn actress who says she had sex with Trump more than a decade ago.
The raid on Cohen’s office was done by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan and was based at least partly on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, according to Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan. Continue reading “Attorney: Federal agents seize documents from Trump lawyer”
A manhunt is underway for a suspect — whom police say is armed and dangerous — wanted for a triple killing in Illinois.
Early Saturday morning, 22-year-old Raheem King was allegedly on a private charter limousine-style coach and shot three other passengers with an assault rifle, said police in Rockford, Illinois, which is about 90 miles northwest of Chicago. Continue reading “Man with assault rifle allegedly shot dead 3 other passengers on charter bus: Police”
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syria and its main ally Russia blamed Israel for carrying out an attack on a Syrian air base near Homs on Monday which followed reports of a poison gas attack by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on a rebel-held town.
Israel, which has struck Syrian army locations many times in the course of its neighbour’s seven-year-old civil war, has not confirmed nor denied mounting the raid. Continue reading “Syria, Russia accuse Israel over strike on Syrian air base”